"It became kind of a game for them to see who could dupe the dumb anthropologist more effectively than the next guy. What they did was connive with each other to invent a whole series of fake names for specific people in the village, and whenever I would check with another informant, the other informant would of course play along with the fabrication and give me the same names as the previous one did. … I was there for six or seven months before I realized what they had done and I only realized what they had done by going to a different village, and when I reached that different village … I mentioned cautiously the name of the head man and his wife, and they just burst out laughing because, in effect, they had told me that the names of these two people were various components of one’s genitalia." - Napoleon A. Chagnon, in an interview with NPR about his book Noble Savages.
